This is a quickstart guide. It won’t tell you everything, just enough to get you started, quickly.
We see SciSpace as an environment to support existing collaborations between scientists, and an opportunity to form new ones.
After getting an account, the first thing you should do is create a network for yourself. This is made up of people and communities that interest you. In the terminology of SciSpace you add a user as a friend, or you join a community. The most obvious way to find people is to click on the Browse button (near the top, right of the SciSpace banner) and scroll through the list. Click on a name to bring up that person's profile. Only information they have added and elected to share will be shown. If you decide to add them to your network click on the link in the sidebar that says “Click here to add this user as a friend”. You join communities in a similar way. You can add friends and join communities as much as you like.
Your network is very important, because SciSpace normally presents content to you based on your network.
To enable like-minded people to find you and make you a friend, fill out your own profile. Also to make yourself known, join and post in communities that interest you, say by writing a blog entry, or commenting on someone else's blog. When you write anything, be sure to add keywords, also known as tags; they offer another way for people to discover your writing. You can attach as many keywords as you like to an article. See Quickstart 2 for more information on this, or browse help topics on the Help community wiki pages.
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